Let's Save Summer
When I was growing up, summer was a time for kids to be kids — playing with friends, swimming, spending time outdoors.
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When I was growing up, summer was a time for kids to be kids — playing with friends, swimming, spending time outdoors.
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On Monday we saw two major reports released within the hunger community: Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap and The Food Research and Action Center’s (FRAC) Hunger Doesn't Take A Vacation - Summer Nutrition Status Report 2013. These reports give us an update on both the problem of childhood...
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Last month we held our second annual Volunteer Appreciation Party for Cooking Matters volunteers and invited everyone to bring a dessert to share. It should come as no surprise that out of the 20 chefs, nutritionists and foodies that attended, virtually everyone brought a delicious sweet treat to...
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We think of summer as a carefree time — especially for kids. But for many of the children we serve, summer means hunger. Kids who usually rely on free or reduced-price school meals have nowhere to go for breakfast and lunch when school is out.
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Share Our Strength’s Bake Sale for No Kid Hungry and Raffle is an annual tradition and this year’s event couldn’t have been more of a success! Staff were asked to bake breakfast items and desserts to be sold at the bake sale and there was plenty to go around.
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225,000 families learning how to cook and eat healthier. 28 million additional breakfasts being served across the country. 6 million additional summer meals nationwide. All by themselves these numbers would be astounding indicators of our success of the No Kid hungry campaign. Together, they really...
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Share our Strength has shown just how important breakfast is to student success, but tight bus schedules and hectic mornings cause too many students to miss out on the benefits of breakfast.
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When Mirta saw a flier at Lawrence Community Connections advertising a two-part Cooking Matters workshop, she immediately signed herself up because she wanted to learn how to cook healthy and affordable meals for herself and her family.
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The smell of delicious sweet and savory cupcakes filled the halls of Lynbrook High School as the Culinary Arts Club hosted its second annual Cupcake Wars to Fight Hunger.
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Chefs are the backbone of so much of the work we do. Whether it’s culinary events that raise critical funds, our nutrition education programs that teach low-income families how to shop and eat on a budget, or even lobbying on Capitol Hill on behalf of hungry kids, chefs are some of our most...
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Congress is still at work on the Farm Bill – legislation that provides funding for SNAP. We’ve already seen damaging cuts proposed – some that could kick millions of people off of the program all together.
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Whew! I cannot believe a year is over- time really does fly when you’re having fun. Being on the staff at Local Matters has always been wonderful, but I really found my calling when we became a Lead Partner of Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters program in February of 2012.
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Every day I fight childhood hunger by teaching kids and their families how to shop and cook on a tight budget. Today, I want to share a piece of my own story to give you a little insight into why I’m so passionate for the work I do as a Cooking Matters instructor with No Kid Hungry.
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The Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, as lead partner in the Arkansas No Kid Hungry campaign, brought Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters program to Arkansas two years ago as part of a pilot program focusing on nutrition education. Now, as we have completed our first year as a fully-funded program...
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Cooking Matters has been serving families in Idaho for one year – a year marked with laughter, surprises, and even tears as we say goodbye to our course graduates.
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